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he/they A goofy muchacho who likes art n stuff

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Wikiascratchboy 🇨🇦 @wikiascratchboy.bsky.social · Aug 20

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Squadverse hero files document just received a wicked new update, featuring ACTUAL image references for all the heroes! (why didn't I think of it sooner? dunno)

Murphy & Mitzi created by @ajmarekart.bsky.social

#murphyandmitzi #squadverse #superheroau

Squadverse Character Bios (2.0)

The SquadThe first wave of crime-fighters in New Lennium City, receiving their powers after a freak accident in the RadCorp Soda Factory during one fateful behind-the-scenes tour gone horribly, horri...

docs.google.com

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JustAMissingNetizen @akidintheinternet.bsky.social · 52m

Standalone vers in case you wanted to Keep Them Separated (got it???, you probably didn't...)

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JustAMissingNetizen @akidintheinternet.bsky.social · 58m

@ajmarekart.bsky.social's Awesome Mizi and Awesome Muphy!

I... Actually really like how this one came out. Like, a lot.

Oh and btw I'll go by JustAMissingNetizen from now on, as I grew to hate my current username :). At least for now
#ajmarekart #murphyandmitzi #anthro #y2k #2000s #art #fanart #Yo

This is one of those pics I see and go "wait, I can do that?" I assume this feeling may be stronger for most of you since you haven't seen any art of my in like a year. But of course I have still drawn and progressed behind the scenes, but even for my current standards this is awesome! don't expect stuff at this level often... I'm just trying out new stuff.

For the longest time I've been trying out new ways to draw these two and a few others chars from this lil' special webshow for me, and while I wouldn't say that I "found" my way of do so with these, I'm quite satisfied with it! Of course the palette is experimental and something special for this piece specifically but it's part of that I think. I want to get more ambitious with how I color and I thought this excercise would be nice to try out, it's inspired by Pokemon's Gen 1 GB palettes if you want at least one "source" of where I got the idea. Not a fan of Pokemon though, but I like some things about it, including sprite work. It's gorgeous.

To finish off I gotta state that while this was not intended as the belated 6th anniversary piece? you may as well take it as such just in case I don't end up making one, as I think it's good enough on it's own for that, it actually includes some key elements I considered for the latter, so there's that...

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Sp00kyStar (Connor G) @zerostarartworks.bsky.social · 9h

Hey Artists, show me your art! I'm might repost and heart some!

You can also tag your friends if you want! As long as you make sure to keep your art SFW!

🚫NO GENERATIVE A.I AND N.F.TS ALLOWED!🚫

#artshare #artistonbluesky #artistonbsky #artsky #promosky #art

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 2h

The final season of #SolarOpposites is NOW STREAMING on HULU and with Hulu on Disney+!

THE ALIENS
THE WALL
IT ALL COMES TO THIS

Tell your parents to resubscribe so you can use their account.

Final season of Solar Opposites poster - now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+

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Waffledoom🎃 @waffledog.bsky.social · 3h

Ready Player Bun #tron

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 7h

things are happening

sunset on a beach with a number of very large illuminated kites

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Video Games Out of Context 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @indiegamesooc.bsky.social · 4h

Night in the Woods

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Wikiascratchboy 🇨🇦 @wikiascratchboy.bsky.social · 4h

hit me like a truck lmao

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Wikiascratchboy 🇨🇦 @wikiascratchboy.bsky.social · 5h

My personal opinion on what shorts I think are 'canon' to @ajmarekart.bsky.social's Murphy & Mitzi (template by @kirbymaster.bsky.social)

Now personally I'd be fine believing the supernatural events actually happened if there were more cases of that stuff, but as of rn? I dunno, man, seems fake.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 5d

“People aren’t really aware of how complicit our country is in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This blockade sends a clear message that public perception is shifting, and we won’t stand for these launches from New Zealand that enable the mass killing of civilians."

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchu...

'Insidious industry': Activists attempt blockade of aerospace summit; arrests begin

The pro-Palestine protesters are hoping to shut the Christchurch conference down today.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 7d

Protests denounce New Zealand government’s whitewashing of Israel’s genocide www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Protests denounce New Zealand government’s whitewashing of Israel’s genocide

Protesters denounced Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ speech to the UN, which downplayed and legitimised Israel’s atrocities and refused to recognise Palestinian statehood.

www.wsws.org

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 6h

"Free Palestine / All Colonies Will Fall"
Seen in Sydney

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RJB / Mallacore 🇨🇦 @rjb-mallacore.bsky.social · 8h

Some of my Star Trek based art.

Enjoy.

#scifiart #scifi #fanart #startrek

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Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · 13h

The M'Chla Bird of Prey Refit, which I personally call the M'Chla II, was designed by EC Henry, based on an idea from @vengeancegod.bsky.social to take the Bird of Prey from Star Trek: Discovery and modernize it to the TNG/STO era. Donny Versiga did some polish and intake work on the ship as well.

In-game screenshot of the M'Chla Bird of Prey Refit from Star Trek Online

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Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · 13h

At 2:03 of the NYCC Starfleet Academy trailer, you see a battle with some ships - at least a couple of them are Klingon ships that were originally designed for Star Trek Online. The big ship is the QeHpu' Advanced Light Battlecruiser and the little circled one is the M'Chla Bird-of-Prey Refit.

A frame from the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy New York Comic Con trailer showing a space battle. Two of the ships featured were originally ship designs created for Star Trek Online.

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Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · 13h

If I had a nickel for every time the canonicity of a Star Trek Online ship has been announced by an New York Comic Con trailer for a Star Trek TV show, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's fucking awesome that it's happened twice. 🧵

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AJMarekArt @ajmarekart.bsky.social · 9h

Murphy & Mitzi gathered everything they could possibly think of to create the biggest bounce of all time!
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This marks one of the few times where one of Murphy's "x-treme stuntz" went EXACTLY as intended... Just a little TOO much. The science on this is still being studied.

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CartoonBudArtz (Open for Commissions) @toonfan01.bsky.social · 1d

#Digitaltober2025 Day 11: Mask
@almadash.bsky.social
#TADC #tadcfanart #gangletadc #Gangle #TheAmazingDigitalCircus #theamazingdigitalcircusfanart

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Travis Bickerstaff @bickpixx.bsky.social · 17h

I felt like drawing Shelley as a witch again. 🧙‍♀️

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 15h

metastasis; NONE of them developed lung tumors, even when cancer cells were infused around the body. Researchers called the phenomenon memory immunity- once the body had learned to identify the cancer, it was still ready to fight back should the disease return. Subsequently, researchers attempted

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 15h

and triple-negative breast cancer. In one case, it even made the cancers stop their progression to other organs. Up to 88% of the immunized mice remained TUMOR-FREE. The vaccine's secret is its design. Traditional vaccines mix an antigen -the antigen that tells the immune system what to target-

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 15h

While one team worked on making immune responses in cancer stronger, another at the University of Massachusetts Amherst demonstrated another success- stopping cancer from occurring AT ALL. Researchers developed a cancer vaccine based on nanoparticles that shielded mice against melanoma, pancreatic,

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 15h

In a breakthrough that could potentially rewrite the prevention and treatment of cancer, researchers have discovered how certain immune cells can break through tumors’ defenses. They have also developed a new nanoscale vaccine that shows promise in preventing cancers from occurring in the first

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 15h

Melanoma, pancreatic cancer, and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) are each serious clinical challenges due to how common or aggressive they are and how poorly they often respond to treatment. Which is why researchers are determined to develop an effective treatment for all of them.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 15h

Researchers envision their vaccine being used as both a treatment and a preventive, and as an approach to treating multiple cancer types.
• www.umass.edu/news/article...

The study has been published in Cell Reports Medicine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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HIGHLIGHTS
•Lipid NPs carrying STING and TLR4 agonists promote synergistic type I interferons
• NPs drain efficiently to lymph nodes and increase polyfunctional T and B cells
• NPs improve tumor-free outcomes with memory against multiple aggressive tumor models
SUMMARY
We report on the utility of a "super-adjuvant" nanoparticle (NP) system as a modular, customizable platform for next-generation cancer vaccination. Using nanomaterials engineering technology, we aim to harness not only the effective adjuvanticity of whole-pathogen vaccines, but also the safety of subunit vaccines.
Our lipid-based NP platform co-encapsulates agonists of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) pathways to promote synergistic production of type I interferons and other
proinflammatory cytokines in innate antigen-presenting dendritic cells and macrophages.
Compared to empty NPs and free agonists, dual-adjuvant NPs administered with antigenic peptides or tumor cell lysate promote increased antigen processing and presentation, drain efficiently to nearby lymph nodes, increase polyfunctional tumor-specific T and B cells, and improve tumor-free outcomes upon vaccination and subsequent challenge with multiple aggressive tumor cells.

Graphical Abstract

The vaccine combines two immune-stimulating molecules (adjuvants) in a tiny lipid nanoparticle that enhances both innate and adaptive immune responses. The innate immune system acts as the body’s first line of defense, responding quickly and non-specifically to invaders using cells that release inflammatory signals. The adaptive immune system takes longer to activate but provides a targeted, long-lasting response, training T-cells and B- cells to recognize and remember specific threats. Together, they form a coordinated defense: the innate system alerts and activates the adaptive system, which then delivers precise and durable immunity.

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